Logan
County Board decides on liability insurance bid

[JULY 14, 2000]The
Logan County Board accepted a bid of $67,474 for one year of
liability insurance from the L.L. Hubbard Co. The insurance plan
provides complete coverage beginning July 16. The next lowest bid
came from Perry Grieme Insurance, Lincoln, and was $43,000 higher.
The board voted 8-5 for Hubbard’s bid.

An
interview with Jeff Mayfield

Tomczak
next to tackle
Lincoln High School football challenge

Part
4 of 6

[JULY 14, 2000]A
new football coach has hit town. Ron Tomczak faces many challenges
coming into his first season with the Lincoln Railers. With this in
mind Coach Tomczak has come here with a plan...with a strategy to
turn things around. Through July 17, you can read a
series of questions and answers from an interview conducted by LDN
Sports Talk writer Jeff Mayfield with Coach Tomczak. Get the inside
scoop on how Coach Tomczak sizes up our team in the CS8, his
strategy, philosophy and training plans to manage our team.

Animals
for adoption

These
animals and more are available to good homes from the Logan County
Animal Control at 1515 N. Kickapoo. Fees for animal adoption: dogs,
$60/male, $65/female; cats, $35/male, $44/female.
The fees include neutering.

Signs of summer

The sunglasses guy is here again. Each year
he sets up a colorful little tent out at Keokuk and Logan Street
intersections selling a variety of sunglasses.

Vision
more important than sight at Lincoln Hill Free Methodist
Church

[JULY 14, 2000]Bill
Dolan, the new pastor at Lincoln Hill Free Methodist Church in
Lincoln, does not have good eyesight, but he and his congregation
have keen insight into where their church should be going and
growing. Pastor Bill is one of the few blind pastors in the United
States and the only one in the Free Methodist movement, but his
visual disability does not hinder his spiritual and leadership
ability. The future of this church will be built on five pillars
that Pastor Bill and church leaders have set out as their vision
statement. Those pillars include God-centered worship, developing
the spiritual disciplines, a comprehensive program of Christian
education, developing strong families and evangelistic outreach into
the community.

[Note:
Ten people kept asking me when I was ever going to get out of
the house and see a real movie at the theater. They finally annoyed
me enough that I went just to make them quit bugging me. Along with
my significant-other and my daughter, Smidge, we caught the
"Chicken Run" at the matinee.]

"Chicken
Run"

[JULY
14, 2000]Trapped
in a prison camp where they are deprived of dignity, freedom, and
put to death if they don’t lay their quota of eggs, Ginger and the
other Chickens hatch plot after plot to escape from the clutches of
Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, their captors. While they find ways to get one
or two chickens out, their goal is for their whole chicken community
to escape
en masse. Time after time they fail in their quest, and Ginger is
sent to solitary confinement, until one day when a strange
"flying" chicken named Rocky arrives in the camp,
promising to teach all the old hens how to "fly" the coop.